The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-04-07
,..,,ushsm Age. March ss.l
THE Latest RAILROAD.
Rlrmfnxham. Georgia an0
C,orada ConnecsRnG Important
Points.

rms
ham as = terminus. the new road, the blrm'ng-
,.r Georgia and Florida railway is one of the
.,ou, interesting and important. This road, part
,,.bch ia under actual construction, embraces
Sc organization prominent railroad capitalists
4 New York, Baltimore, and locally is repre-
.s,,,d nv J A. Montgomery. T. +. Earle, W.
n Re,hea. w L. Wright and A. 3. Be'hea.
The amount al stock required l,y law has been
,.ten and paid for. and in three or four days the
INA, organization will be perfected and pres-
dent and other officers elected. Engineering
,,r,;.s will be AT once placed in the field and
he work nf consirucinns vigorously prosecuted.
The gentlemen ha ling charge of the project have
h.en ouelly at work for several months. and
havc secured valuable franchises, subscriptions,
-;gb,s nt way etc, along the line of us route
.h-ou,h ih.. States ct Alabama, Georgia and
rg,,iJa They control over 100000 acres of
,.;,g,n pine land, besides splendid properties IN
;rnn coal and marbl" districts. The capital
ock is four all "n d'l'ar> ands arrangements
have he,n made Ia place the bonds in New
York.
The. rnsd will pass through Leeds, Talla'egS,
W.>t Point. Columbus, GA, CuihberI Bain-
bridge anil Tallahassee. Fla, and will develop
usnn;fircn' mineral and agricultural region,
and ,tF.ld several connections with important
..anor,s on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
.,or,er nv a good many miles than any now
arail.be.
The ROAD vii! connect w'lh the following i'm
r,r,,nl lines: Al Leeds with The Georgia Pa
,;f. and Georgia Cenlrai; Al Talladcga with the
e., Tennessee, Virginia Il Georgia and the An
c;.,on & Atlantic: near Roanoke, in Randolph
co,oty with III, Griffin, Ia Grange Il Wes'trr.
Abiding n short line tu the valuable distribu
;,.- country represented by Griffin, Monticello
-.l Athens: also with the Macon. la Grangr 4
Er,i,,.ri am \. cl,. in connection with The So
vsua.i,. Dnhlin x Macon. will give the sh"rte-t
limo +, Savannah nv one hundred miles. Al
w., Pom, il will connect with the Western Il
A,;anio and with HE Atlantic X West P"aI
,oad. A. Cnlnmbls. tia., II forms connection
,r;ih sey.rai important lines, III" Mobile * Cir
III th. Georgia Mrilani, .hr Columbus Il Car
-,,on an the Georgia Contra. At CulhNrt
with ,he Southwestern Railroad If Gcolgia and
with me Fart g zines road Al a point just b."
icg Cnhhrr il forms 4 short connection with
,he Rrn>uick e Albany road. making the dis
..n-.. eighty SIX miles shorter 10 the important
s,,,,, oi Brunswick ,h'n hv any other roilc.
4, Abingdon is another branch q The south
,..i.ru rnad al Georgia lnd At BalnhrIAye,
he Il 81 navigation ON III" Fii9' river, II On
,.... via: Inc Stv4an4h. Fiprl!a Is Western
,v<,e,o. aud finally al TAiiaIa>se" by connection
s,th the Florida Railway X Navigation Com
n,ny'. lin =, a'f'r'ilnJ q rpuic To Tallahassee.
T,n,,, ,and thence. 'v steamer 'n KY Yves, and
,.,h,, shorter b. 1870 miles ;!i;,n any other nnN
Operating.
TIN. road will not onlv serve 10 develop Me
csbaWin coal FIELDS bui III" valuable dis
,rc,. o, TaIiadrga, Clay AMI Randolph counlIcs,
Az, VII ,';,.n up the agricultural districts ans
.,;,4 lands Of Ets,crn Alabama. Spn'hern Geor-
ria and vii run parallel with that fine water
prlioa ii he Gu lhnocnec river from West
p,n;s;n Cniamllis n0ied ~ afi0rding unsnt-
lms.A wafer power facilities. Tue company
hsye acquired bv purchase the graded right Of
wsy frim Biinbriise Ia Cuthbtrt, Ira, sixty
t,ig miles IN lrnr:h and also The Taladega and
C.aosa Vale, road from Talladrga tn Eden, tia,
OAR: Of tie road from TaiIst.rga To lhe Coo>a
fl'tr t%ng ia "p"riH"l ahu ing F'nitii"'! >
f.om tie river Ia Ellen. vel! The bridge
acfo-- rhr C.p''sl being Inicr construction.
Al Tallahassee the road VIII CONNECT with the
railway 10 s.. Marks, ON Api'alichee bay, a dis
i.nce 81 ~ enty-,Nn miles, where there is fine
aarlor From Blinbrlcc "a Tallahassee the road
ran. 'hroggL perfectly fla; county covered with
.ue:oi> ak.-, varying ia size .!"nl ten acres 10
several guar miles in alca, and n"'ed a. excel
eai fishing sronnl- and rem irkAb,c tor s4iubriy
Of clma'c.
The Az i assured by The gentlemen connected
VIII TIE enterprise thai every etprt viii be put